1337: Money and Abuse of Financial Power with Tanya Selvaratnam

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Farnoosh Torabi

Entrepreneurship, Business

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🗓️ 30 March 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Award-winning filmmaker Tanya Selvaratnam bravely recounts the intimate abuse she suffered from former New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, using her story as a prism to examine the domestic violence crisis plaguing America. Her book is called Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence.. She and Farnoosh discuss the inadequate accountability of powerful abusive men and advice for victims of abuse. If you or someone you know needs immediate help, please reach out to the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE. More about Tanya Selvaratnam: She is a writer and an Emmy-nominated and multiple Webby-winning producer. She is the Senior Director, Gender Justice Narratives for the Pop Culture Collaborative; and the author of THE BIG LIE. Her essays have been published in the New York Times, Vogue, Glamour, ELLE, Cosmo, CNN, NBC News, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. Want more articles and videos by Farnoosh? Check out www.cnet.com/somoney. Subscribe to her weekly So Money newsletter for the latest updates and advice. Catch her weekly money videos on YouTube. Post navigation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So money is brought to you by CNET, the site that shows how to navigate change all around us.
0:06.7	So money episode 1337, Tanya Selvaratnam, author of Assume Nothing, a story of intimate violence.
0:16.1	You're listening to So Money, with award-winning money guru Farneesh Karabi.
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0:42.4	Well, in the case of Eric Schneidermann and Andrew Cuomo, for example,
0:46.0	they had millions of dollars in their campaign funds, that they could use towards their legal
0:52.4	fees, defending themselves against allegations, which they knew to be true.
0:57.4	Those campaign finance laws have to be changed.
1:01.0	Welcome to So Money, everybody. I'm Farneesh Karabi. We are going to have an intimate conversation
1:06.5	today with a very brave, very courageous woman, Tanya Selvaratnam. She's the author of Assume Nothing,
1:14.0	a story of intimate violence, which recounts the intimate abuse she suffered from former New York
1:20.7	Attorney General Eric Schneidermann. She uses her story as a prism to examine the domestic violence
1:26.8	crisis plaguing America. When Tanya met Eric Schneidermann at the Democratic National Convention
1:32.8	in 2016, they seemed like the perfect match. Both were Harvard alumni. They both studied Chinese.
1:39.0	They were both interested in spirituality and meditation. But behind closed doors, Tanya's
1:44.5	life was anything but ideal. She writes how Schneidermann became controlling, mean, manipulative,
1:50.4	25% of women in America are victims of domestic abuse. And Tanya never thought she'd be part of
1:55.7	that statistic, but the reality was she was trapped in a violent relationship with one of the
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